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times and fatally shooting walter scott in the back. slager has been fired and charged with murder. tonight, we have learned that he grew up in mount laurel, new jersey. wednesday night and the big story on "action news" tonight is word of local roots for former cop charged with murder walter scott in north charleston. "action news" reporter sharrie williams is live in front of the lenape high school in medford, sharrie. >> reporter: and jim, we have confirmed tonight that michael slager a attended high school here at lenape high but he grew up in the town over in mount laurel. neighbors there tell us that they remembered the slagers being a nice family. they also recalled michael as a young boy who went off to be in the coastguard. a police officer charged with shooting an unarmed a man in the back in south carolina lived part of his life right here in this mount laurel neighborhood. >> i think it is a same what happened. >> reporter: tonight neighbors shocked to learned such a big national story has ties to

their quiet street. >> it surprised me because i didn't know that it was connected to the street. >> reporter: michael slager has been fired from the north charleston police department and is now behind bars, facing murder charges after cell phone video surfaced showing final seconds of the fatal encounter between he and 50 year-old walter lemar scott. it started as a traffic stop but slager says things escalated and that scott reached for his stun gun. the department said slager feared for his life and opened fire. >> shots fired, subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> reporter: but video tells a different story and shows scott running from the officer and then slager firing eight shots killing scott. scott's devastated mother said she almost could not watch the video. >> it just tore my heart to pieces. i pray that this never happens to another person.

this has got to stop. >> reporter: three three-year old slager grew up in mount laurel and graduated from lenape high school in medford. >> it is all over facebook everybody is talking about it. >> reporter: todd is also a graduate of lenape high and he said learning that the accused officer grew up in his hometown is a shock. >> it is weird to hear about someone like that that grew up around here and did something that heinous with no remorse. the guy was running a away. >> reporter: neighbors tell me that michael slager left new jersey as a young adult. he had been on the north charleston police department for five-year before he was fired. he and his wife is now pregnant. we're live in medford, new jersey sharrie williams channel six "action news", jim. >> thanks, sharrie. philadelphia a police resolved a dangerous incident in a center citibank tonight without the need for force. a man pulled out a knife and started slashing a a chair inside the td branch at 11th

and chestnut. he then allegedly began swinging at officer outside the bank but in of them were hurt. a brief chase then happened several blocks down to 13th and market where officers took the suspect into custody. we have some breaking news from the northern liberties section of philadelphia, where a short time ago a driver struck three people in the intersection of the fifth and spring garden. it happened an hour and a half ago. two women and a child were rush to hahnemann university hospital with serious injuries. the driver was taken into custody about a block away. we have no word yet, of any charges. philadelphia police after rested a 14 year-old girl for allegedly kidnapping, her one year-old cousin late today in kensington. live at east detective headquarters is "action news" reporter dann cuellar, dann, what happened here. >> reporter: welshing jim, police are calling this a family affair that got out offhanded and of all things a four year-old is in the center of the investigation.

got news is the one year-old is all right thanks to police and tracking technology that located the car. police say that the drama an folded about 2:20 this afternoon in the 3900 block of ease college tine in kensington a report that 14 year-old kidnaped her cousin, one year-old baby boy and took off in the 2005 nissan. >> she's 14. she can't have have a driver's license. too young to drive. >> reporter: fortunately the car was equiped with on star and was in the long before they tracked it. from the looks of it, she was going all a over the place. >> the vehicle was track throughout the city, it was in the 19th district, in west philadelphia, and it was on, route one, south of route one near city line avenue. >> reporter: ultimately the car ended up park in the 3700 block of sidenham and police say the the 14 year-old running down the alley carrying the babe a code by an 18 year-old male. police say they handed the baby to a complete stranger a a 25 year-old woman sitting on her porch in the 3700 block of north 16th street and then ran into her house.

>> the both, male and female took the jackets off the 14 year-old female also took his shirt off. they were trying to disguise themselves from the the police. >> reporter: the the baby was taken to children's hospital to make sure he was all right. it turns out he was. now as to why the the 14 year-old took the child to begin with. >> why she did this? why she took the child is unknown. >> reporter: police have been interviewing the mother of the child as well as others in connection with this investigation. presently it is undetermined what the 14 year-old will be charged with but she could be facing kidnapping and related offences. we're live in east detectives in hunting park i'm dann cuellar for channel six a "action news". thank you. a small fire broke out in the horse stable in the mantua section of philadelphia. it happen in the 3900 block of ogden street. the shed contained 13 horses and six ponies. fortunately none were injured in the fire. there is no word on a cause yet. this is 22-year old kymere corbin, the man pennsylvania

state police say shot his father in the head while they were driving on the schuylkill expressway last night. troopers say the elder corbin was driving his son to a drug and mental health treatment center. kymere was in the back seat. seventy-six westbound was shut down or partially block for hours. corbin is now jailed on a half million-dollar cash bail charged with aggravated assault. his father elbert is in critical condition. police in chester county are concerned tonight that there are additional victims of an alleged sexual predator that they don't yet know about. that is because the the the suspect works as a photographer and a dj. twenty-eight year-old daniel milowicki has been accused of assaulting a 21 year-old woman after posting a modeling ad on craigs list. investigators say they found a stash of child pornography and up skirt videos in his chester county home, and also a human sized cage in his basement. the city of philadelphia

is offering a $10,000 reward for at rest and conviction of the suspects who kidnaped and jeweler's row employee and took her on a nightmarish ride. the the three men beat the the five three-year old victim taserd her, and demanded bank codes. they then dumped her in the cemetery in darby boro. she's recovering at a the the hospital. this began at 4:00 o'clock saturday as she walked into this parking garage at the eighth and chestnut. surveillance video show the suspects distinct red paneled van but detectives say that in the interim the the suspects may have wiped those white swirl marks clean. in boston today the jury found dzhokhar tsarnaev, guilty of all charges, in the boston marathon bombing trial. the verdicts were almost a for gone conclusion the question is will he be sentenced to death. monica malpass a has details on what happened today in court and reaction to the jury's decision. >> reporter: jim some victims say this verdict does put one

more step behind them but other survivors gave heart breaking testimony about losing limbs or watching their loved ones die and for them they say there is no such thing as close another. these are the victims killed in the boston marathon attack when two pressure cooker bombs went off, their families say they will forever be haunt by this horrific video and emptiness they still feel. jurors reject defense argument that tsarnaev was just a pawn in his older brother's deadly game. this video of dzhokhar planting a bomb filled backpack near one, eight year-old victim was just too damming. >> there has been child ren taken and parent that will never get to put them to bed a at night again. it is not something that you will ever be over, you know you will feel it forever. there will always be something that brings it back to the front. >> reporter: tsarnaev was found guilty of killing a mit police man during his

brother's get a away attempt. other key piece of evidence was a confession scrolled in the parked boat where the wounded tsarnaev hid days after the tragedy. folks in court says he showed no remorse. >> throughout this whole thing he has been to use my word arrogant walking in and out of the courtroom and completely disinterested. >> it is not a day to celebrate. it is a bitter sweet victory. not out there cheering for what happened but i'm satisfied. >> now defense attorneys will present mitigating evidence trying to save tsarnaev's life cleve bryan rode his family, his childhood in the former soviet republic and relationship with his brother but you prosecutors will count their with aggravating evidence including the killing have that child and we will tell you the outcome when it happens. >> that penalty phase face could begin next week. >> that is right. >> thanks, in monica. nearly 150 military medals, ribbons and badges were handed out to deserving veterans in gloucester county, new jersey.

former service members and hear families gathered at the bank bridge regional school in sewell for this event held by county freeholders. twenty-six veterans were honored in total, four of them posthumously with some of these medals dating back for heroism during world war two. watchers of the atlantic city casino turn around never expect it to be easy. tonight two major developments prove there is more drama ahead. the at the last minute, city council scrapped a vote tonight that would have helped the former show boat casino to reopen as a college campus. richard stockton university purchased the at in december but a contract provision from the 1980's allowed neighboring trump taj mahal to block that plan. then fresh off his purchase of the revel casino florida developer glenn straub swooped in last week and bought the site intend to go let stockton open the campus in the show boat. trump still resisted. the atlantic city lawmakers stepped in with a

redevelopment plan that was supposed to be passed tonight the but even that plan is off the table for now and the legal limbo continues in atlantic city. the power plant supplying electricity to the revel casino says it will shut off the juice, effective noon tomorrow. acr energy partners said it tried to reach an agreement with the new owner glenn straub but failed. straub has said in the past he could connect electricity through show boat next door or use portable generators but there is a fear of burst pipes or mold build up without climate control. still to come on "action news" tonight two trenton sisters are target of the brutal gang beating police are hoping this video can help identify the attackers. under water downpour, we will show you more of tonight's new york city subway flooding recorded by commuters themselves. are you short tall or somewhere in between. you probably know your height

by heart. on health check tonight scientists explain how it the predicts your chance of coronary disease, cecily? double scan live showing snow is falling in parts of the northern new england, some severe storms out to the west and our weather will get more interesting over the next few days. i'll explain in the accu weather forecast. phillies score their first runs of the season. are they enough. jeff skversky has that story when "action news" continues tonight.

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well, idea of an easy commute home on the new york subway system was, if you will pardon the expression all wet today. water main break in greenwich village flooded streets and swamped the subway tunnel. parts of the three lines were affected. commuters posted videos of the

deluges to social media but fortunately there were no reports of anyone getting hurt. well, violent attack a against two teenage sisters in trenton has been caught on camera. now police are working to identify everybody involved. as you can see the mob kicked and punched the girls. seventeen year-old le jaya cook required 12 stitches, 16 year-old destiny cook has a bald spot where her hair was pulled out. >> we could have died out there, somebody stumping on our head. we could have died. we were out there all by ourselves. >> the a attack happened monday evening at greg grant state park on east state street investigators have identified at least two suspects but there have been no arrests. lower merion police department is taking steps to address community concerns about racial profiling. superintendent michael mcgraph issued a report at tonight's board of commissioners leading. mcgraph says the the

department plans to review training for officers and beef up community policing. the department will reinstitute the the citizens police academy. a school bus driver in chester county has been fired for leaving a seven year-old alone for hours. the kenneth the consolidated school district says the the driver park the school van in a lot on march 31st, the child's mother called more than five hours later. that is when authorities found the young student unharmed superintendent barry thomas eddie told parents in the letter that quote word cannot express our level of dismay and discuss -- difficulties gust. she was breathing afternoon rush hour commuters in center city letting everyone know that she's physically fine after her mishap last night. abraham fainted near start of the debate and did not continue, under a doctor's order. abraham says that she was dehydrated.

on health check at 11:00 it noise tall tail. scientists say your height could predict your risk for heart disease. shorter people are more prone to heart attack, but why is that? well, new study suggest this could be due to genetics. scientists found that genes that govern height also seem to affect ldl or so-called bad cholesterol and triglycerides. the risk of blocked arteries rose more than 13 percent for every two and a half decrease in height from the average of 5-foot eight. lets get that seven day accu weather forecast, and the the last five or six days look pretty good. >> yeah, first day in the so nice. we're stuck in this very glummy some what damp weather pattern and chilly as well. it is getting better. by the weekend storm tracker six live double scan showing we have no heavy rain out there but we have pockets of light showers some drizzle. mainly right now north of philadelphia, the the the

lehigh valley, allentown also moving through quakertown. across route 100 north of pottstown. the new hope as well. we will see on and off showers as we head through the the overnight hours and temperatures definitely on the cool side. let go to where the action cam was tonight and this really shows the scene looking up, you can barely see the top of the buildings thanks to the low clouds. we will see moisture in the air. it is chilly 40 degrees in philadelphia a our high 44. that is typical of the middle of the february. allentown 40. trenton 39. millville will 41. reading 39 degrees. we have wind out of the north east. that is pulling down some wind chills, feels like 33 in philadelphia a. feels like 31 in trenton. thirty-three in wilmington. we will be talk in the air mass tomorrow. the kid heading out to the bus stop you will want to bundle up. satellite six with action radar showing lot of clouds here. lets draw your attention to west virginia. thinks a mcc complex it is a

fancy word for a big cluster of thunderstorms. it looks ominous but this will likely dive to the south with that warm front. with the cold air in place we have very stable air mass. we are not going to be getting any then are storms until we get a surge of warm air that will happen on friday. the morning rush hour very similar to today, drizzle with the chilly breeze, temperatures holding in the lower 40's. you want your winter coat tomorrow and the umbrella 46 degrees the high with lots of cloud. that raw wind out of the north east and occasional showers. not expecting any heavy rain tomorrow. friday when this warm front lifts up to the north, we will get in the warm sector of the system 75 the high. morning fog and if we get enough sunshine as the cold front moves through we could have severe gusty then are storms in the afternoon and evening hours. that cold front is responsible for about nine reported tornadoes in kansas today. so the exclusive accu weather seven day forecast tomorrow

just like today. case of the drearies. little depressing i admit it. 46 degrees. friday, morning fog afternoon thunderstorms. they could be gusty. 75 degrees. behind the the system great timing for the weekend. we will clear things out saturday. it will be on the breezy side cooler, 62 degrees for the union game. sunday is pick of the weekend. sixty-six, beautiful. machine we will bump things up to seven two. tuesday, cloud and 7o wednesday a possibility of thunder showers gith a high of 72 degrees. the so only one day of the next seven is depressing. the rest is looking good. >> bright and sun. >> exactly. >> thanks, cecily. >> some young musicians got the chance of the lifetime tonight playing a alongside the best in the business. >> ♪♪ >> brass players at philadelphia high school for creative and performing arts were joined by members of the philadelphia orchestra for a

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phillies looking for their first win and here's jeff skversky. >> drama on and off the feel. monday's opener was such a nightmare ben reveer said he could not sleep. hopefully tonight bats wake up against boston after being shut out. it is cold tonight. freddie galvis looks like he is ready for blizzard. aaron harang looks red out strikes out six of nine and eight total. he works in the seventh a allows two hits, in runs. phillies will not get their first run until 15 innings in the season. jeff francoeur the the new guy. three run shot in the sixth tonight. his first home run in two years. three to nothing phillies. ken giles in trouble walks three guys including a run with the bases loaded. socks get within two. papelbon comes in with two

outs in the eighth. jonathan papelbon with the bases loaded with handily ramirez. oh no, stays in the park. papelbon a four out save. phillies win four-two. before the game pap told the boston globe i don't really feel much like a philly. it has been a tough transition here. afterward he is asked to explain himself is. >> what is a philly. a horse? is that what it is. i feel like a horse, yeah. >> the red sox run deep in my blood. it is who i became as a pitcher. that will always stick with me. anytime you have to move on you have to adjust and adapt to a new team. i haven't had any problem doing that here. >> he seems like he fits in is what the problem. not since your zero and 17 problem have your sixers lost seven straight games. sixers trying to a roid letting things come full circle as season comes from an end a week from tonight.

joel embiid will see his first action in the the nba summer league. wizard taking advantage down load third quarter, drew goodin around four guys. sixers down 21. nerlens noel had five-point but comes up with a steel right here to jeremy grant but still not enough. sixers lose by 29. they also lose noel who leaves the game in the fourth with a sprained right ankle as he comes down under the basket, ouch landing awkwardly on another player. he was in the walking boot and out for their next game. we will be right back. and off you go. and your backyard gets a whole lot bigger. and you're running... and climbing... and your gear gets lighter and trimmer, and fitter and smarter. and now every frozen second spent willing this day to come is just a warm fading memory. ♪

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he is not even with the team right now. so philadelphia native and former lasalle star john mccarthey will start their next game on saturday, you can see it right here on six abc. coverage begins at 3:30. been more than two months since tiger woods has played golf so how is tiger getting ready for the the biggest tournament of the year snow is playing around with his kids. tiger playing in the par three contest for first time in 11 years. perhaps his daughter sam has a future on the tour. how about a hug for daddy. through go. the shot of the day comes not from the youngest on the course but oldest. jack nicholas on four the t shot, 130 yards away, bouncing back and get in the hole. you know where it is going. in the hole. the seven five-year old nicholas with the six time masters champ still got it. sound of big band were alive and well tonight at haverford school.

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